A veteran of the United States Department of Justice recently wrote that despite the unprecedented nature of a former American president facing criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions, the prosecutions of Trump should be celebrated as a win for democracy. In a December 7 essay for The Atlantic, Donald Ayer — a former deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush — wrote that even though the final outcome is unknown, former President Donald Trump’s ongoing criminal proceedings in state and federal courts still prove the supremacy of the American judicial system. “These three pendi…